Tag Archives: PBS

The War Over ‘War of the Worlds’ – Myth or Math?

Posted on May 7, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Conventional wisdom holds that Orson Welles’s 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds terrorized an entire nation. Representative sample from the following day: But that’s not really what happened, as Jefferson Pooley and Michael J. Socolow chronicled in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A. Brad Schwartz, American Experience, Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles' War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News, C.E. Hooper, Fr. Coughlin, Huey Long, Jefferson Pooley, Jon Stewart, MacMillan, Michael J. Socolow, NPR, Orson Welles, PBS, Radiolab, Slate, Stephen Colbert, The Takeaway, War of the Worlds | 4 Comments

Whistler Past the Graveyard: America’s Most Artistic Artist

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Ever since reading the novel I, James McNeill Whistler by Lawrence Williams in 1972, the hardworking staff has been a fanboy of James Abbott MacNeill Whistler, the 19th century American expatriate artist who embodied “art for art’s (and my) sake.” (Just for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Andy Warhol, Ann Landi, artficionado, ARTnews, Charge of the Light Brigade, Charles Freer, Darren Waterston, Filthy Lucre, Frederick Leyland, Freer/Sackler, I James McNeill Whistler: A Novel, James McNeill Whistler, James McNeill Whistler: The Case for Beauty, John Ruskin, Lawrence Williams, MASS MoCA, PBS, Peacock Room, The Princess from the Land of Porcelain, Thomas Jeckyll, Uncertain Beauty, Winslow Homer | 4 Comments

WGBH Herald Hostage, Day 2

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

The Kochheads are here! Defenders of conservative billionaire David Koch are going after the liberal activists going after Koch for giving a reported $18.6 to local public broadcaster WGBH over the past three decades. From [Saturday’s] Boston Herald: Koch foes blasted … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bob Lichter, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Center for Media and Public Affairs, David Koch, George Mason University, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, Kochheads, Media Research Center, New York, NOVA, PBS, Tim Graham, WGBH, WNET | 3 Comments

Free The Bill Mauldin One!

Posted on July 3, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

From our Late to the Party desk The Boston Sunday Globe featured this book review (dead-tree version) of The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II, by Charles Glass: WILLIE AND JOE GO AWOL ‘The Guns at Last Light,’’ the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bill Mauldin, Boston Sunday Globe, Charles Glass, Ernie Pyle, Linda Hunt, Matthew Price, PBS, Pulitzer Prize, Reporting America at War, The Death of Captain Waskow, The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II, Willie and Joe | 2 Comments

Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (PBS=Panel’s Big Sneer Edition)

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

A nice little crisscross in this week’s Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight: The tabloid went after a public broadcasting star journalist, while the public broadcaster cuffed around the tabloid’s star columnist. Start, as usual, with the Underdog: The Boston Herald’s Press Party webcast … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Beat the Press, Boston Herald, Charlie Rose, Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight, Howie Carr, Joe Battenfeld, John Martorano, PBS, Press Party, WGBH | 4 Comments

WNET’s UnReality Ad Campaign

Posted on May 28, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

The hardtracking staff has no problem with this new ad campaign for New York PBS station WNET. We just think it’s an interesting misdirection play. From the New York Times: An Ad Campaign at WNET Uses Reality TV as a Punchline … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged @KnitterDaisy, @MimeWife, @RonPickles, @StantheMime, Bad Bad Bagboys, Bayou Eskimos, Knitting Wars, Married to a Mime, New York Times, PBS, reality TV, Sneak ADtack, The Dillionaire, WNET | Leave a comment

Dead Blogging The Fender Bender In Denver

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Ads ‘n’ ends from last night’s Barack Obama/Mitt Romney bakeoff in the Mile High/Low Expectations City: • If you picked “crushed” for your drinking game, you were knee-walking by 9:14. • The first half hour of this thing was strictly … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barack Obama, Big Bird, China, Fender Bender in Denver, Fred Barnes, GOP bedwetters, Jim Lehrer, Mitt Romney, Nintendo Air Debate, PBS, presidential debate, Wall Street Journal | 1 Comment

It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Fred Willard PBS Backlash Edition)

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

The Boston Globe gets some payback.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Fred Willard, Market Warriors, New York Times, PBS | Leave a comment

Grand Old Potemkin Pillage

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

You can set your election-year calendar by this House Republican budget kabuki (via the Boston Globe): Republican bill aims ax at NPR, public TV WASHINGTON — House Republicans unveiled legislation Tuesday to get rid of AmeriCorps, the national service program championed … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Globe, budget kabuki, Grand Old Pantomime, House Republicans, NPR, PBS | 4 Comments

Downton Crabby: Brits Bash PBS Over Knockoff Merch

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

As the New York Times recently reported, the PBS hit Downton Abbey has spawned a cottage industry of spinoffs for booksellers and publishers. Oh yes – and jewelry makers. From the U.K. Daily Mail: Downton Shabby: Unofficial collection of jewellery unveiled … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Daily Mail, Downton Abbey, Downton Crabby, Downton Shabby, ITV, Lady Mary Crawley, New York Times, PBS, Public Broadcasting Scamsters | 2 Comments